Food for thought

Two recent movies bring out the less savoury aspects of the worklife of delivery boys

If you live in urban India, it might be hard to imagine a day without food delivery workers making life a little easier for people who are too tired to cook, or pressed for time, or simply without a clue about how to prepare a meal. No wonder, then, that thoughtful and entertaining stories centred around the lives of food delivery workers are now being told through cinema.

Kapil Sharma, who first shot to fame as a comedian on television, plays a food delivery worker named Manas in the Hindi film Zwigato. It got a theatrical release in India last week